Battleground Delhi: AAP Hopes To Ride Kejriwal Sympathy While BJP Aims A Hattrick

The Lok Sabha elections for all seven seats in Delhi is scheduled to go on polls on May 25. The INDIA block — Congress and Aam Aadmi Party — will be fight together to turn the tide to their favour, while Bharatiya Janata Party is looking forward to repeating the 2014 and 2019 performance, where they made a clean sweep in the National Capital.

The seats going to poll for the general elections on May 25 are New Delhi, North West Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi, North East Delhi, East Delhi and Chandni Chowk.

While the Arvind Kejriwal led AAP will be contesting in four seats, the Congress is fielding candidates in rest of the three Lok Sabha constituencies, in accordance with the INDIA Bloc alliance seat sharing.

The INDIA Bloc is counting on the sympathy wave following Arvind Kejriwal's arrest in the alleged liquor policy scam case. The AAP leader is was granted bail by the Supreme Court and has been campaigning since. Meanwhile, the BJP is eyeing a hat-trick of victories by replicating its 2014 and 2019 successes in Lok Sabha 2024.

In the past elections, BJP swept all the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, clinching a staggering 46.40% of the vote share in 2014 and an even more impressive 56.86% in 2019.

Will PM Modi's charisma work again? Can BJP maintain its dominance in Delhi with a clean sweep, or will the AAP-Congress alliance change the tide The voters' verdict will be revealed on June 4.

North East Delhi: Sitting BJP MP Manoj Tiwari braces himself to face off against Congress's firebrand candidate Kanhaiya Kumar. Back in 2019, in his debut election as a Communist Party of India candidate, Kanhaiya faced defeat at the hands of BJP's Giriraj Singh in Bihar's Begusarai constituency. Will he turn the tables this time around? That's what makes this an interesting contest.

New Delhi: In a significant political debut, Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of the late Sushma Swaraj, steps into the electoral arena as a BJP candidate from New Delhi. The former Parliamentarian's daughter faces off against AAP's Somnath Bharti in what promises to be a closely watched contest.

North West Delhi: BJP's Yogender Chandolia will be contesting form North West Delhi, against ex-BJP candidate and Congress candidate Udit Raj. The ex-BJP MP represented the seat from 2014 to 2019 and switched to Congress after BJP did not repeat him in 2024.

Chandni Chowk: In a surprising move, BJP has nominated Praveen Khandelwal to contest against Congress's Jai Prakash Agarwal in Chandni Chowk, replacing former Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

East Delhi: While in the other contests, East Delhi will see AAP's Kuldeep Kumar and BJP's Harsh Malhotra are pitted against each other.

West Delhi: This constituency will see a contest between AAP's Mahabal Mishra and BJP's Kamaljeet Sehrawat.

South Delhi: While in South Delhi BJP's Ramvir Singh Bidhuri will challenge AAP's Shairam Pehalwan.